Mark Gruenwald Interviewed by Joe Field 1988

Originally taped for a cable access TV show about comics, this interview was conducted by Joe Field at The Wonderful World of Comics Convention (before it was shortened to "WonderCon") in Oakland CA in April 1988.

Mark Gruenwald was a comic book writer, editor and occasional penciller who worked for Marvel Comics from 1978 to his passing (at the young age of 43) in 1996.

Joe Field is currently the owner of Flying Colors Comics in Concord CA. He is the founder of Free Comic Book Day.

This interview was taped months before the opening of Flying Colors.

[KGBookkeeping]

Absolute brilliance from a man that gave his all to the craft and his friends; much respect was earned and is due

[_SLUS_]

Squadron Supreme 1985 was amazing, and his run on Captain America was definitive.

Gone too soon.

[briankelly]

Great to see this. It was Mark's run on Captain America that got me started on reading comics in 1988.

[SamGuthrie]

Ahhh... the 80's -- Marvel's glory years. Mark Gruenwald, Jim Shooter, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Roger Stern, Larry Hama, Bob Layton, etc all in their creative primes.

[KRhetor]

A wonderful writer whose MARVEL AGE column got me to appreciate comics as art. RIP, now and forever.

[BuyMagure]

Mark Gruenwalds Cap run cemented Cap as my favorite superhero.

[GrandSlamSilver]

Wow, thanks for posting! That's some interesting insight into how how Gruenwald created Flag-Smasher and the Super-Patriot.

[arlanderhightower]

never met the man. but miss his writing lostn his story

[aquamexicancarlo]

I wonder what he and jack Kirby would have thought of the captain America movies since they were kind of the god fathers of the character.